Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

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Microbial communities are groups of microorganisms that share a common living space. The microbial populations that form the community can interact in different ways, for example as predators and ...

In this presentation we give a brief introduction to how the technology works, and we describe our work using the MinION for de novo assembly of microbial genomes, real-time identification of ...

The most complex living things were colonies of microbes such as stromatolites and microbial mats. No plants, no animals, just a barren landscape of rock, river and ocean. The emergence of those ...

the microbial communities change in predictable ways. In small streams (low-order rivers), researchers found microbes that specialize in breaking down complex materials like plant polymers ...